Dallas ICE shooter searched 'Charlie Kirk Shot Video' before attack: FBI

The gunman who killed 1 detainee and wounded 2 others at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement tract bureau successful Dallas searched online for "Charlie Kirk Shot Video" arsenic precocious arsenic the time of the attack, FBI Director Kash Patel said Thursday.

The shooter, identified arsenic 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, besides precocious searched apps tracking the beingness of ICE agents and downloaded a database of Homeland Security facilities, Patel said successful an X post.

Patel said agents recovered a handwritten enactment reading, "Hopefully this volition springiness ICE agents existent terror, to think, 'is determination a sniper with AP rounds connected that roof?'"

Those details and different accumulated grounds bespeak "a precocious grade of pre-attack planning" by Jahn, Patel said.

Jahn fired "indiscriminately" astatine the installation gathering from a adjacent rooftop connected Wednesday, authorities said. He was recovered dormant of a self-inflicted gunshot coiled pursuing the attack.

The 2 wounded ICE detainees remained successful captious information connected Thursday, an bureau spokesperson told NBC News. No ICE agents were wounded successful the attack.

The shooter's hunt for video of the shooting of Kirk, the blimpish activistic who was assassinated during a crowded lawsuit successful Utah earlier this month, could adhd to the grounds astir his motive for the attack.

The FBI has already revealed that unspent ammunition casings recovered adjacent the shooter bore "anti-ICE" messaging.

Joe Rothrock, the peculiar cause successful complaint of the FBI's Dallas tract office, called the onslaught "targeted violence."

Jahn's brother, Noah Jahn, told NBC helium was amazed by the governmental messaging.

"I didn't deliberation helium was politically interested," Noah Jahn said of his brother. "He wasn't funny successful authorities connected either broadside arsenic acold arsenic I knew."

Joshua Jahn was registered to ballot arsenic an autarkic successful Oklahoma, NBC reported. He has besides been linked to addresses successful Texas.

ICE said successful a connection Wednesday evening that the shooter opened occurrence connected the gathering and astatine a transport van located astatine the facility's sallyport.

All 3 detainees were changeable portion wrong that van.

There were 5 to 7 others successful the van who avoided the slug spray, an ICE authoritative told NBC. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told NBC's Tom Llamas that his agents pulled immoderate of those detainees retired of the enactment of fire.

"The shooter was conscionable shooting astatine random vehicles inside," Lyons said. "There were immoderate brave men and women connected the crushed that went into those vans, were pulling those detainees retired portion they're nether fire."

Homeland Security Department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, successful a statement, said that due to the fact that of the Dallas onslaught and different incidents, "DHS volition instantly statesman expanding information astatine ICE facilities crossed the country."

Migrant check-in appointments astatine the Dallas ICE installation scheduled for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday person each been postponed until Monday.